A proposed medical facility and transitional housing for homeless youths will also help address a wide range of community healthcare needs and bring money back into the city and county, the chief financial officer of Hill Country Community Clinic said Tuesday night.

“The core function of this center will be health care services: medical, dental, behavioral health, chiropractic, psychiatry. All of those things will be open to the entire community, not just focused on homeless individuals,” Nick Cutler told the Redding City Council.

Cutler was responding to some of the questions raised about the facility currently proposed to fill a vacant lot east of Grocery Outlet in Redding. The project faced almost immediate concern from community members who worried it will attract sex offenders, drug abusers and homeless people to their neighborhood and three nearby schools.

The Facebook page “Stop Redding 4million $ Homeless Facility Building Location,” which was started by a local real estate agent, encouraged others to express their concerns at the same council meeting, though none came forward.

Cutler — who spoke during the meeting’s public comment period — didn’t get to address every question he sought to. He did say before stepping off the podium the clinic wouldn’t offer meals, showers and laundry service to patients.

“This facility is not going to function as a homeless day center and also the zoning on this property actually prohibits those types of services,” he said.

The $18 million, 43,000-square-foot center will also employ more than a hundred people.

“This will actually be a revenue generator for this city and for this county by bringing and leveraging Medicaid and Medicare dollars into this city and this community,” Cutler said.

Hill Country is partnering with Shasta College and the California Heritage Youth Build Academy to find homeless youths already in those programs to place in the center’s 18 transitional housing units.

“A lot of these individuals we will be working with have already made the decision to work hard and improve their lives,” Cutler said.

Those young adults will have a residential supervisor at all times and security will be onsite from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., when the clinic is open, Culter said.

Hill Country announced Center of Hope last week and it’s still years from opening.

City Manager Barry Tippin said the project has to go through a complete planning process: obtain a use permit, submit plans to the city’s building department and be approved by the Planning Commission.

“It’s not a done deal by any stretch and there’s going to be plenty of opportunity for public comment along the way,” Tippin said.